Since I took up a new stride with a management consulting organization as a Product Owner, I have been thinking more on lines of what more can be done apart from conventional business as usual Agile practices such as managing backlogs, stakeholder expectations, ensuring user acceptance of the end product. How do I scale this […]

Since I took up a new stride with a management consulting organization as a Product Owner, I have been thinking more on lines of what more can be done apart from conventional business as usual Agile practices such as managing backlogs, stakeholder expectations, ensuring user acceptance of the end product. How do I scale this […]

I recently updated my MAC OS X version to 10.8.2. After this update, my VPN started having random issues. Sometimes while connecting it would show me authentication failure or no server response while at other times it would connect perfectly. On some networks it refused to let me connect at all. I have found a solution to this and now my VPN connects fine every time. Here's how:
Step 1
Open terminal and type:
# Create backup
cp -r /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration ~
# Delete the SystemConfiguration
sudo rm -rf /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration
This will delete all your custom networks. Make sure you have the settings written down somewhere.
Step 2
Reboot and recreate the VPN network connection
Test your VPN now. Voila! It works !

Around the beginning of the year I read about the benefits of
cultivating a daily practice of gratitude. Making a point of being
grateful trains you to think more positively and just makes you feel
better.
I've personally found it to be a rewarding, easy practice. Every
morning I think about three things that I'm grateful for as soon as I
wake up, and it's a fantastic way to start the day. And over the past
six months, I've found myself feeling grateful for my life much more
often.
The fact is, I have a great life. I do what I love, I'm with the woman
I love, and I'm financially secure. Now I appreciate my great
situation much more than I did six months ago.
And if there's something in my life I want to change, practicing
gratitude has helped to give me the energy to change it. Instead of
feeling overwhelmed and anxious, I feel like I ultimately have nothing
to worry about.
The best part about it is that it's freaking easy and only takes a few
minutes, but the benefits are huge and accumulate over time. It's
such a powerful practice that I truly think everyone should try it.
Here are a couple suggestions for getting started:
What you don't lack
It's easy to take our everyday lives for granted. If you have a
toothache, you are grateful when it's gone. But you quickly adjust to
your new situation and forget that your tooth is better.
But when you look closely, you can see that our everyday lives are
full of small miracles like these. Do you have food? Do you have your
vision? Your hearing? None of these are guaranteed to anyone.
As Thich Nhat Hanh put it:
For me, to be alive is a miracle. It is the greatest of all
miracles. To feel that you are alive and are breathing in is to
perform a miracle - one that you can perform at any time.
Or think about this. There's a condition called "alien hand syndrome"
where those who suffer from it can't control one of their hands. They
try to button up their shirt with one hand, and the other hand
unbuttons it. They move in to hug a loved one, only to have the alien
hand punch the person. Not having alien hand syndrome is something to
be grateful for.
Your past
Is there anyone in your past that helped you when you needed it?
Did you have good friends? A family that loved you?
Even if you are feeling a lack in your life now, you can be grateful
for what you've had in the past. Even if it's difficult, trying
feeling grateful for people or events in your past.
These two sources - your past and what you don't lack - can be very
fruitful sources of gratefulness.

Quick update here. Just pushed out some code for an ActiveRecord JDBC Teradata driver. I had been looking for a driver for a project I was working on, so if you have the same need feel free to play with … Continue reading →

Quick update here. Just pushed out some code for an ActiveRecord JDBC Teradata driver. I had been looking for a driver for a project I was working on, so if you have the same need feel free to play with … Continue reading →

"Think it's OK to serve up 30KB of framework over 3G just to manipulate a couple of DOM elements? Of course you don't because that's an asshat move and you're no asshat. You'll probably instead use a couple of lines of vanilla JavaScript, perhaps a little CSS :active with transitions, all while riding a unicorn bareback through a double rainbow, no hands." This is the official introduction to Chibi.

XAML Spy (previously known as Silverlight Spy) is quite famous with Silverlight development groups to investigate into existing XAML based applications. It provides quite an insight to the developer if not the exact solution for a given scenario. I have used the older version ‘Silverlight Spy’ multiple times in the past to get the details of how […]

The last couple of weekends, I've taken advantage of the near-perfect early autumn weather to enjoy a few laps around the Central Park Reservoir followed by a stroll down to Joe for a post-workout caffeine hit.These outings have only added to the love I've been feeling for the Upper East as of late.We're something of the red-headed stepchild up here, what with our reputation for stuffiness and terrible restaurants, but things have been improving like mad. Plus, we have most of the good museums. It's okay; your Metrocard will work up here, I promise. Come visit!